Quote

...therefore all childish fear must be put away.

John Muir

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

John Muir
Age: 76 †
Born: 1838
Born: April 21
Died: 1914
Died: December 24
Author
Autobiographer
Botanist
Conservationist
Ecologist
Engineer
Essayist
Explorer
Geologist
Glaciologist
Inventor
Mountaineer
Naturalist
J. Muir
Therefore
Fear
Away
Must
Childish

More quotes by John Muir

Image
The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts... Why should man value himself as more than a small part of the one great unit of creation?
John Muir
Image
The moon is looking down into the canyon, and how marvelously the great rocks kindle to her light! Every dome, and brow, and swelling boss touched by her white rays, glows as if lighted with snow.
John Muir
Image
How infinitely superior to our physical senses are those of the mind!
John Muir
Image
Books are but stepping stones to show you where other minds have been.
John Muir
Image
Over the summit, I saw the so-called Mono desert lying dreamily silent in the thick, purple light -- a desert of heavy sun-glare beheld from a desert of ice-burnished granite.
John Muir
Image
These beautiful days ... do not exist as mere pictures - maps hung upon the walls of memory to brighten at times when touched by association or will ... They saturate themselves into every part of the body and live always.
John Muir
Image
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
John Muir
Image
Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
John Muir
Image
Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get - -people,storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
John Muir
Image
In God's wildness lies the hope of the world.
John Muir
Image
But to gain a perfect view, one must go yet further, over a curving brow to a slight shelf on the extreme brink.
John Muir
Image
How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
John Muir
Image
The bat­tle we have fought, and are still fight­ing for the forests is a part of the eter­nal con­flict between right and wrong, and we can­not expect to see the end of it. …So we must count on watch­ing and striv­ing for these trees, and should always be glad to find any­thing so surely good and noble to strive for.
John Muir
Image
No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself.
John Muir
Image
Man has injured every animal he has touched.
John Muir
Image
Some people miss flesh as a drunkard misses his dram.
John Muir
Image
When one tugs at a single thing in nature he finds it attached to the rest of the world. Variant - When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe. Variant - Tug on anything at all and you'll find it connected to everything else in the universe.
John Muir
Image
Every atom in creation may be said to be acquainted with and married to every other, but with universal union there is a division sufficient in degree for the purposes of the most intense individuality.
John Muir
Image
See how God writes history. No technical knowledge is required only a calm day and a calm mind.
John Muir
Image
God never made an ugly landscape. All that sun shines on is beautiful, so long as it is wild.
John Muir